Up, Up & Away – STORAGE IN THE CLOUD

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Up, Up & Away –

STORAGE IN THE CLOUD

Susan Schreitmueller

Distinguished Engineer, Senior Cloud Advisor

Academy of Technology, Leadership Team, Client Value

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The Technology and the Business Side of Cloud

Cloud computing is a model for enabling

convenient, on-demand network access to

a shared pool of configurable computing

resources (e.g., networks, servers,

storage, applications, and services) that

can be rapidly provisioned and released

with minimal management effort or service

provider interaction.*

Technology Side… … Business Side

Choice of market leading services

Choice of market leading services

Robust platform for service composition

Robust platform for service composition

Self-optimizing hybrid environment Self-optimizing hybrid environment

Cloud is a HOW not a WHAT!


What IT Departments Need to Know

The IT department is in direct

competition with Off-Premise

alternatives for Lines of Business

funding

On-Premise

Some workloads require a level of

security, availability or government

compliance

Off-Premise

Some workloads might find Public

Cloud is good enough to do it justice at

a reasonable price

Traditional IT Private Cloud

Dedicated

Hybrid Cloud

Mixed

Public Cloud

Shared


IBM Cloud is open by design – providing a flexible and

resilient platform to support evolving technology

NOVA

HEAT

Bare metal

OS

Bare metal

OS

Compute node

VM Instance

OS

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withSoftware defined environments

Cloud operating environment

API economy


Cloud Economics… Infrastructure Matters

Simplified Management– Improved admin productivity

– Lower skills required

Fewer Servers and Network

Connections – Fewer cores and connections

– No need for Fibre Channel SAN

Higher Storage Utilization– Deliver SLAs with increased utilization

Lower Software License Costs– Fewer cores

– Database, infrastructure, SW

Lower Environmental Costs– Power / cooling, floor space

Cloud Optimized Storage

Lower Entry Costs; Inefficient at Scale

Increasing Complex and Inefficient for

Cloud and Big Data Needs

Commodity Storage

TIME/CAPACITY

TIME/CAPACITY

OPEX

CAPEX

$

$


Commodity Storage

Commodity Storage


OPEX: Up to 75% of Cloud

Storage Costs


Cloud Storage Types and Definitions

Block

File

Object

Archival

Online

Ephemeral

Persistent

• Block storage offerings are differentiated by speed/throughput (as measured in

IOPS) and segmented by lifecycle of the disk. Device location does not matter.

• Ephemeral storage is tied to a single VM and a lifecycle (i.e. it is provisioned

when the VM is provisioned and destroyed when the VM is destroyed)

• Persistent storage has a lifecycle independent of any single VM and can be

provisioned/destroyed at any time and attached/detached to many VMs during

it’s life

• File-based offerings are uncommon among providers, especially among those

targeting cloud native applications

• Primarily targeted at cloud enabled workloads, including big data analytics

• Usage is being replaced in new application development with online object

storage

• Object storage offerings are differentiated by the durability of the data (i.e.

odds of irrecoverable loss) and segmented by the availability of the data (i.e.

time required retrieve).

• An object in online storage is immediately accessible

• An object in archival storage may require minutes to hours to be accessible


Cloud Storage Taxonomy

Storage as the Storage CloudStorage for the Compute Cloud

Persistent Storage• Persists across

VM reboots

• Can be shared

between VMs

• Transactional

• High Performance

Reference

Storage• Archives

• Images Video

• NENR and

WORM

Ephemeral Storage• Typically boot

volumes,

page files and

temporary

• Goes away when

VM is shutdown

Hosted Storage• File Storage

• Object Storage

• Backup

• Disaster

Recovery

IBM XIV / SVC / DS8000 / FlashSystem Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Archive

Spectrum Scale, Elastic Storage ServerTransactional

Performance

Universal Access

Lowest

TCO


Flash SystemsAny StoragePrivate, Public

or Hybrid Cloud

Control

Virtualize Accelerate Scale

Family of Storage Management and Optimization Software

Protect Archive

IBM Spectrum

Control

Analytics-driven data management

to reduce costs by up to 50 percent

IBM Spectrum

Protect

Optimized data protection to reduce

backup costs by up to 38 percent

IBM Spectrum

Archive

Fast data retention that reduces

TCO for active archive data by up

to 90%

IBM Spectrum

Virtualize

Virtualization of mixed

environments stores up to 5x more

data

IBM Spectrum

Accelerate

Enterprise storage for cloud

deployed in minutes instead of

months

IBM Spectrum

Scale

High-performance, highly scalable

storage for unstructured data

IBM Spectrum Storage family

Committed more than $1Billion investment in the next 5 years


IBM Spectrum Virtualize with Spectrum Control

Optimize Your Resources

Automate Your Workloads

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Compute Storage Network

APIs

Orchestration

Service Levels

Standard Interfaces

Provisioning

Virtualization

Control

Plane

Data

Plane

SANStorage Virtualization

IBM Spectrum Virtualize•IBM SAN Volume Controller •IBM Storwize V7000 / V5000•IBM FlashSystem V9000

Snapshot

Data Protection

Storage Optimization,

Provisioning and

Transformation

Infrastructure

Resource Management

IBM Spectrum Control•Data and storage management•Storage analytics

One or

more


ACTIVE MEMBERS

490

23,745

COMMITS

180K

2.5M

OpenStack’s Phenomenal Growth

COMPANIES

Source: http://www.ohloh.net/p/openstack

2013 OCT 17

Release: Havana

1,729,137 lines of code

2011 SEP 22

Release: Diablo

478,671 lines of code

2014 APR 17

Release: Icehouse


LINES OF CODE

2013 SEP 27

Release: Folsom


2012 APR 5

Release: Essex

558.368 lines of code

2013 APR 4

Release: Grizzly


2011 APR 3

Release: Cactus


2011 FEB 3

Release: Bexar


2010 OCT 21

Release: Austin


2015 APR 30

Release: Kilo


2014 OCT 16

Release: Juno



Overview of OpenStack: Key components

Compute

Provision and manage large networks of virtual machinesNova

Object Storage

Scalable, redundant http-based put/get object storeSwift

Network

Network-connectivity-as-a-service, provision and manage L2 networks

Neutron

Identity

Unified authentication system, integrates with existing systems

Keystone

Imaging Service

Image registration and (optional) storageGlance

Dashboard

End-user self-service portal and administrative interfaceHorizon

Monitoring / Metering

Extendable statistics and metering serviceCeilometer

Orchestration

Combines resources into a running cloud stackHeat

Database Services

Provides DbaaS provisioning functionality for relational and non-relational DB engines

Trove

Hadoop

Map/Reduce cluster provisioningSahara

Block Storage

Block storage service, create/clone/manage volumesCinder

File Storage

File/NAS storage service, providesshared file storage to guest VMsManila

Bare Metal Provisioning

Provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines

Ironic


Open Source Only Proprietary Open “Plus”

Organizations deploying cloud have a choice to make…


IBM Cloud Management OpenStack offerings - all Cloud consumption models

Private Cloud

• Dedicated pool of IT resources

• Bare metal or virtualized

• In SoftLayer data center

• Physical isolation of apps/data from other

orgs Large apps and data

• Workloads requiring isolation

• E.g., Media & entertainment, retail, gaming

Dedicated

Cloud Management across all models, built on OpenStack

IBM Cloud

OpenStack Services

- Dedicated +

• Shared pool of virtualized IT resources

• In SoftLayer data center

• Virtual isolation of apps/data from other

orgs

• Workloads requiring fast provisioning and

cloning

• Apps requiring network flexibility

• Apps with flexible SLAs

• E.g., front-office, web, dev / test

Public Cloud

Public

IBM Cloud

OpenStack Services

- Public

• Dedicated pool of IT resources

• Bare metal or virtualized

• In client datacenter, behind client

firewall

• Complete physical isolation of

apps/data

• Apps needing high perf and low

latency across

• Apps with strict audit requirements

• E.g., Banking, healthcare, mfg

Local

(on-premises)


IBM System Storage support for OpenStack

IBM Storage products are OpenStack-ready:

XIV and Spectrum Accelerate

Storwize family and Spectrum Virtualize

DS8000

IBM Spectrum Scale

IBM Spectrum Protect

Industry-leading features accessible through OpenStack

XIV ease of use

Easy Tier

Real Time Compression

Storage virtualization

Storage assisted migration

IBM Storage with OpenStack Brings Simplicity and Robustness to Cloudby Mark Peters, Senior Analyst and Wayne Pauley, Senior Analyst

Enterprise Strategy Group


Introducing IBM Spectrum Accelerate

Flexible software-defined block data storage based on proven XIV

technologyOverview Software based on IBM XIV Enterprise

tuning-free consistent performance new delivery models needed by next-generation application

environments

Further extend XIV enterprise capabilities

Key Capabilities Enterprise iSCSI block storage in minutes leveraging commodity

hardware Hotspot-free performance and QoS Advanced remote replication, role-based security, and multi-

tenancy Hyper-scale management of dozens of PB Virtualization and automation with VMware, REST, and OpenStack Single management environment on premise or in the cloud

……


Why use IBM Storage for OpenStack and Cloud?

XIV / Spectrum Accelerate

Very easy to install

• XIV itself as well as OpenStack driver

XIV dense packaging well suited for storage-intense cloud

Start small and grow with the Advanced System Placement

Program (aka Frame Ahead) and Cloud Provider offerings

All storage is deployed automatically with complete automation

Supports iSCSI + FC attachment

Spectrum Virtualize / Storwize

Only Storage solution that supports fully transparent live storage

migration since OpenStack Havana

• No interaction with the host required

All advanced Storwize features are supported and exposed to the

Cinder ecosystem

• Real-time compression, EasyTier

Supports iSCSI + FC attachment

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http://docs.openstack.org/kilo/config-reference/content/ibm-xiv-driver.html

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Why use IBM Storage for OpenStack and Cloud (cont’d)

Spectrum Control

Deepest insight and optimization of on-premise and cloud storage

Optimizes the Cinder scheduler

Facilitates SAN zoning, no need for additional drivers

Spectrum Protect

Reliable Top-Class Comprehensive data protection and recovery

solution

First commercial backup product with Cinder backup driver

Protects physical, virtual and cloud data with one solution

http://docs.openstack.org/kilo/config-reference/content/tsm-backup-driver.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/servicemanagement/sm/tpc/downloads.html


Hybrid Cloud – Spectrum Protect using cloud storage

Spectrum Protect Next

Next gen dedupe is foundation (remove reclamation requirement)

Native cloud API support (remove requirement for cloud gateway)

Encryption at rest with deduplication – Protect server manages keys

Target local cloud object storage (D2C),

Migrate older data from on-prem to cloud storage (D2D2C)

Today

Cloud gateway required (e.g. device class = file & Spectrum Protect unaware cloud storage used)

Encryption at rest options: client encryption, cloud gateway encryption or cloud storage encryption

Reclamation considerations

Cloud Object Storage

Customer Site

Spectrum Protect Server Protected VMs

Protected

physical

Servers

Disk pool

Archive and older backup versions

Local object

StorageDisk pool

Spectrum Protect Server• Node replication target (DR

copies)• Primary storage pool target

Centralized Hybrid Cloud Management with Operations Center

Target: 2H

2015

Target: 1Q 2016


Macro Efficiencydriven by consolidation of hardware and software, deployment speed, efficient

use of IT staff as well as power and cooling savings

98% Reduction

in application processing time

50% Reduction

in TCO

97% Reduction

in physical footprint

95% Reduction

in power consumption

Source: IBM Client Experiences The data above are based on average operating conditions that may or may not be representative

of a particular customer’s operating environment. The use case measurements are from TMS

customers using the flash technology that has been integrated into IBM’s systems.

Flash and the ability to boost IT efficiency in a Private/Hybrid CloudThe IBM MicroLatency advantage

1 microsecond : 1 second :: 1 second : 11.5 days


Data-at-Scale and pricing models for MSPs – almost 60% lower TCO

XIV’s Grid Scale architecture is simple to deploy, highly resilient and enables predictable performance for meeting SLAs even at 95% utilization or more

New XIV Cloud Storage for Service Providers delivers the capabilities like multi-tenancy and geo-mirroring

New XIV’s Frame Ahead program gives MSPs the flexibility they need to grow their business while minimizing acquisition costs by 40% or more

Data Flexibility and Independence – nearly 50% less effort

Clients who need a data architecture that adapts as their business grows choose Storwize Family Solutions including SVC software functionality

Storwize V7000 and SVC provide higher levels of efficiency and performance with the data independence you’ve come to expect

Spectrum Acclerate software supports global file systems with petabytes of data, and automated movement among Flash, Disk and Tape to optimize performance and cost

Mainframe and High End Power Data Environments – six 9s availability

The Resiliency, Performance and Scalability of DS8870 is the right answer

Data Protection – up to 90% lower TCO

Backup 3x times more cloud data in the same footprint with the new TS4500 tape library

Reduce TCO for long term retention with Spectrum Archive and Spectrum Scale

Protect, retain and secure business critical data, with encryption at rest and TS77xx Grid architecture for 100% access to data globally

Smarter Storage Choices for Cloud

10x PerformanceImproved performance and

reduced time to provision

storage by 94% with XIV

50% reduced

energy costAdmin time reduced to a few

hours per week

28% space savingsIncreased storage capacity while

reducing physical space

requirements

Pricing ModelsPay as your Grow helps meet the

demands of MSP business models


Multi-Cloud Storage Gateway:

The Future of Storage Economics

Amazon S3

MicrosoftAzure

Private Cloud

RackspaceMulti-cloud Storage Gateway

Note: The Multi-cloud Storage Gateway is planned for the future; plans may change

Backup

DR

Tiering

Archive

Data sharing Software defined cloud storage gateway

Embedded in select IBM software-defined storage and other IBM storage offerings in the future

Flexibility

Data can be replicated to multiple IBM and non-IBM cloud object stores

No CAPEX for reliable, available, distributed and maintained cloud storage

Based on Apache jclouds® open source

Storage Hypervisors built with Spectrum Virtualize

Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Scale

Scale

Virtualize


IBM SoftLayer Storage Services

Object Storage (OpenStack Swift)

Consistent Endurance & Performance (NFS)

Local

SAN

FTP / CIFS

Legacy iSCSI

Consistent Endurance & Performance

Portable Storage Volumes

Block

File

Object

Archival

Online

Ephemeral

Persistent

Content Delivery Network (CDN)


SoftLayer Storage is designed to integrate multiple storage technologies – including File Transfer

Protocol (FTP), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI),

and online data backup and recovery tools – into a unified offering with the ultimate level of security,

reliability, and flexibility.

SoftLayer’s storage design provides enterprise-grade services, including automated backup, high-

availability solutions, and data replication. All services are fully automated and accessible through

SoftLayer’s industry-leading Customer Portal and API.

Understanding SoftLayer Storage


Understanding SoftLayer Storage (cont.)

SoftLayer Storage…

Integrates industry-leading protocols by utilizing the most widely used storage protocols,

providing a wide range of fast, reliable, cost effective, and scalable storage options. Administrators

can choose the level and type of storage that meets their resources and needs.

Provides enterprise-grade security by transferring all data directly from customer’s private

VLANs. SoftLayer’s revolutionary Network-Within-a-Network topology gives the private network the

highest level of security while not obstructing administrator access.

Maintains exceptional connectivity by leveraging SoftLayer’s notable connectivity within and

between its geographically diverse data centers, transferring data fast and dependably. Each server

rack features 10 Gb uplinks to the array, utilizing jumbo frames for maximum performance at near-

zero latency.

Offers geographic diversity by working between SoftLayer’s data centers across the country,

seamlessly transferring data from one geographic location. Customer’s can have a server in any of

the data centers and integrate it with a combination of storage options in one or more other

locations.


Storage

Local / Server Disk Software Defined Storage

• High-capacity bare metal servers with up to 36 drives per server,

options include:• SATA – cost effective storage up to 4TB drives, typical use cases

are for file servers

• SAS – highest performing spinning disks up to 600GB per drive,

suitable for a variety of uses

• SSD – highest performing local disk option with up to 800GB per

sold state disk

• QuantaStor (OSNEXUS)• iSCSI SAN and NAS access

• Installed on Bare Metal with local disks

• Customer controls all aspect of storage (design/build your own

storage solution)

• Single tenant environment

• Supports thin provisioning, I/O optimization, replication, encryption,

compression, HA via CEPH and GlusterFS, etc.

Endurance Storage Performance Storage

• Highly durable and resilient enterprise grade storage

• iSCSI block level access (HA connectivity via MPIO)

• File level access – NFS (HA connectivity via routed TCP/IP)

• Volume sizes ranging from 20GB to 12TB

• IOPS tiers - 0.25 IOPS/GB (low I/O), 2 IOPS/GB (general purpose),

4 IOPS/GB (high intensity - ~49K IOPS w/ 12TB LUN)

• Can stripe across LUNs to achieve larger volumes and IOPs

• Allows for concurrent access from multiple servers (e.g. clustered

databases)

• Optional (hourly, daily, weekly) snapshot and replication (across

data centers)

• Highly durable and resilient enterprise grade storage

• iSCSI block level access (HA connectivity via MPIO)

• File level access – NFS (HA connectivity via routed TCP/IP)

• Volume sizes ranging from 20GB to 12TB

• IOPS ranging from 100 to 6,000

• Can stripe across LUNs to achieve larger volumes and IOPs

• Ideal for most applications requiring predictable levels of

performance

FTP / NAS Object Storage

• Scalable file level storage

• Ideal for managing and sharing data between systems (e.g. archival,

backups, and less frequently accessed files)

• No replication options

• Enterprise storage only accessible from SoftLayer servers

• Dynamic, pay-as-you-go pricing

• Ideal for archive, backups, streaming media, web and static content

delivery

• Searchable, taggable

• Replicated across at least 3 servers within each data center

• Accessible via Customer Portal or REST API (integrated with CDN –

delivered via Edgecast)


Bare Metal Servers

Bare Metal Basics Network Features

• Physical server/device

• Single-tenant environment

• Most powerful server available

• Custom-provisioned in 2-4 hours

• Managed through Customer Portal or API, controlled directly on

device through IPMI, KVM/IP, or RDP

• 24x7x365 support comes standard

Standard• 20TB Outbound Public Network Bandwidth (public inbound and

private network bandwidth is free)

• Single-path network connections on public, private, and

management

• 100 Mbps connectivity

Upgrades• Dual-path network connections

• Upgraded port speed from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps,

where 10 GbE is offered

• Bandwidth pooling for two or more severs on an account

• Unlimited Public Outbound

• Provisioning with private network only connectivity (public

network ports disabled)

Chassis, Processor, Drives Fixed Configuration Option

• Available in all Data Centers

• Intel-powered, x86 servers

• Single, Dual, or Quad Processor models

• Chassis Sizes1U = 4 drives

2U = 12 drives

3U = ~6 drives (GPU only)

4U = 36 drives

• Drive TypesSATA

SAS-SCSI

SSD

• Redundant Power on all 2U, 3U, and 4U servers

• Fixed configuration bare metal servers offered on a monthly or

hourly basis

• Provides faster provisioning times (30-60 minutes)


Virtual Server Instances & Private Clouds

Virtual Server Basics Private Clouds

• Multi-tenant (public node) or single-tenant (private node)

environment

• Run on Citrix XenServer hypervisor

• Hypervisor managed by SoftLayer, client sees OS level and above

• Provisioned with Local or SAN-based storage

• Monthly or hourly options available

• Generally deployed in 30 minutes or less

• Bare Metal Server provisioned with a customer-specified hypervisor

• Customer manages hypervisor and all VMs provisioned on the

hypervisor

• Available with the following SoftLayer supported hypervisors:Citrix XenServer

Microsoft Hyper-V

VMWare

Parallels

• Customer may purchase hypervisor license from SoftLayer; For

Windows ONLY, clients may purchase a Hyper-V Data Center

license that provides unlimited licenses for VMs

• Customer may also bring their own license for the hypervisor,

including operating systems for VMs

Local vs. SAN-Based Storage Private Cloud IP Addressing

Local Storage• Best performance

• Disks in RAID10

• Ideal for low-transactional operations

• No high availability options

• Some hosts are SATA; new hosts will be SSD

SAN-based Storage• High availability

• Ideal for light, front-end operations

• Ability to assign larger volumes

• Lives on SoftLayer managed SAN

Performance and Endurance Storage optionalNote: All secondary volumes are considered portable storage and may be

transferred between servers; can be either local or SAN.

• Each Virtual Machine requires a unique IP address

• Purchase a portable IP block to assign and reuse IP addresses on

VMs

• VMs on Private Clouds require appropriate route entries configured

for 10. network so VMs can route on SoftLayer’s backend network


Backups

EVault Idera

• Backs up data at file system level (file level)

• Web console for each agent

• “Set-and-Forget” configuration (hourly, daily, weekly, custom)

• Only accessible from SoftLayer servers

• Back-ended by enterprise grade storage managed by SoftLayer

• Data can be encrypted and compressed in transit and at rest

• Multi-site backup optional

• Disk to disk backup solution (block level)

• Software installed on Bare Metal server with internal disks

• Agent based; first backup is a full backup with incremental forever

after; each new backup is a recovery point (daily, weekly, monthly,

etc.)

• Accessible from non-SoftLayer servers

• Single tenant, customer-controlled environment

• Single interface for all backups and devices including self-managed

VMs

• Data can be encrypted and compressed

• Multi-site backup optional

Storage Bring Your Own

• Many of the SoftLayer storage offerings (e.g. QuantaStor, NAS,

Endurance Storage and Object Storage) can be utilized as backup

storage

• Use the servers and storage provided by SoftLayer to build/bring

your own backup solution, for example Tivoli Storage Manager

including TSM Node Replication, Veeam, etc.


What are the RIGHT questions to ask?

Why are you considering cloud?

“What are the top business problems where Cloud can help?”

“Can you describe the key pain points?”

“How well does that work today?”

“How are you adapting to market changes as fast as your competitors?”

Driving the right business outcomes

“Can you describe the business outcomes you would like to see?”

“Are you trying to be a Cloud Provider or a Cloud Consumer?”

“How will that outcome be measured?”

Aligning cloud business value with business outcomes

“Which are the greatest problems to solve first / in 3m / 6m / 12m?”

“How quickly can we shift to the Cloud model?”

Selecting the right workloads for the Cloud

“What are the easiest workloads to start with?”

“Which workloads will have the greatest to gain from a Cloud model?”


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PureFlex

PureSystems

Storwize*

System Storage*

System x*

System z*

Tivoli*

WebSphere*

zEnterprise*

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